While spending the day with my family at Fair Haven Beach State Park on Lake Ontario in Cayuga County, I had the good fortune of spotting a WILLET flying with a group of Ring-billed Gulls that had just been flushed off the swimming beach at around 6:30. The group of birds flew around over the water for a few minutes before settling back down on the beach. Unfortunately, a group of small children were chasing the gulls around, causing them to flush repeatedly, and sometime during the ensuing confusion, the Willet disappeared.
As we were leaving just before 8 PM, the WILLET was back on the beach foraging near the waters edge. This time I was able to see that it was an immature plumaged bird. I did snap a few photos of it through my binoculars, but they came out worse than I expected. The Willet was still at the water's edge when we left. Mickey Scilingo Constantia Oswego County, NY [email protected] 315-679-6299 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
